Zemithang or Zimithang, also called Pangchen, is a village and the headquarters of an
eponymous circle
A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is const ...
in the
Tawang district of Indian state of
Arunachal Pradesh. It is on the bank of the
Nyamjang Chu river, which originates in Tibet and enters India from the north near the locality called
Khinzemane.
The Zemithang Circle is the last administrative division of India on the border with the
Tibet Autonomous Region of China, along the border with
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...
in the west.
It has a population of 2,498 people by the 2011 census, distributed in 18 villages. The Zemithang Circle and the Dudunghar Circle to its south, together make up a
community development block.
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Zemithang's border with Tibet, along the
Namka Chu
Namka Chu or Kejielang River ()
is a tributary of Nyamjang Chu that flows along the disputed border between India and China. The Indian side of the border is the Tawang district in Arunachal Pradesh. The Tibetan side of the border is in Tsona D ...
and
Sumdorong Chu
Sumdorong Chu (; )
is a tributary of the Nyamjang Chu river that flows along the disputed Sino-Indian border between the Tsona County of Tibet and the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh. It originates in the Tokpo Shiri Glacier, about 7–10&n ...
valleys, is disputed with China.
Gallery
File:Zimithang ARUNACHAL PRADESH, India.jpg, Nature near Zemithang
File:Zimithang.jpg, Mountains of Zemithang
File:Tawang district with labels.png, Tawang district
References
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Tawang district
Borders of Arunachal Pradesh